Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have a bit of light bumping. Light orangish / yellowish paper covered boards have a dark orange paper spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a a plain white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. "At the far edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station holds a unique place in the universe - the one place where humans from Earth, the strange Outsider worlds, and the extremely powerful alien ondat all coexist, bound together to the fate of the fragile world below. Scarred by vicious nanotechnology unleashed by the powerful ondat, this lone desert planet acts as the crucible to determine whether there can be peace between the far-spanning empires of the universe..."

Science Fiction C. J. Cherryh Carolyn Janice Cherry Bob Eggleton Alien civilization Space Travel Nanotechnology Space Opera Science Fiction